One In Three Of Estonia's Military Reservists That Were Called Up For The Annual Defense Exercise Failed To Show Up

Exercise Okas 2022 in progress Source: Sergei Stepanov/ERR  

ERR.ee: Over a tenth of snap military exercise call-up emails went unopened 

More than 10 percent of those called-up to a recent snap military reservist exercise either did not open the email or did not receive it in the first place, the Estonian Defense Forces said on Monday. 

Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) commander, Lt Gen. Martin Herem, said of the call-up notifications for the "Okas" snap exercise held in late September: "There are people who didn't show up for the exercise, who didn't made contact, and we can see that they hadn't even opened the notification sent to them via the eesti.ee state portal environment." 

This was not necessarily an honest mistake in every case.

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Update: One in three of NATO member’s military reservists go AWOL (RT)  

WNU Editor: One in ten reservists did not even open their email.